StayWideAwake wrote:Everyone has their own criteria I guess...but I just couldn't bring myself to call something a classic rap album or best rap album of the year with such incredibly average verses..at best. Sorry Kanye fans. I would align myself with the reasons why Reasonable Doubt, Illmatic, IWW, Aquemini, MMLP, GKMC..etc are classic albums. There are classic hip hop albums that aren't particularly impressive lyrically, but at some point it has to count against it. You could make a minimalist album without minimal effort on your rapping. Even the songs that come across as insightful on the surface have very little substance. Once you hear him try to discuss the issues in person it becomes apparent that he really has nothing meaningful to say, and this whole "enslaved...fuck the corporations and their power" bit turns out to be frustration with not being able to make more money in the fashion industry. Take the production as you will, but aside from that I really don't see the genius masterpiece in anything he is actually saying. It's clear in interviews that he is dying to be a part of the corporations that he accuses of slavery. He wants to be a trillionaire. There are no religious undertones or valiant motivations about wanting gross amounts of money like that.If he was really about a message and helping the people become unshackled, somehow I feel like begging Gucci to buy his leather sweatpants wouldn't be the consumption of his psyche.
DING DING DING, we have a winner ladies and gentleman
